Ada 🐰🕳

Expert Ponderer • Risk Ninja + Strategy + Design

[Ada 🐰🕳 @adakhun]

"Kindness is always the right choice." -Dolly
A beautiful person through and through. May the world always remember your light and all your goodness, rest in peace. 🕊️💛

[Dolly Parton @DollyParton]

Happy 50th Anniversary to my song, “I Will Always Love you.” It will always hold a special place in my heart as I hope it does yours ❤️

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

Cats have extraordinary obstacle avoidance abilities

There is also an obstacle memory for the back legs,

It will remember the height of the front foot after lifting the front foot, and then raise the back foot to the same height 1/🧵
https://t.co/oBhW3cvQTZ

[Ada 🐰🕳 @adakhun]

Feed the soul, starve the ego. - djAM

[Squawk Box @SquawkCNBC]

"The costs of the FDIC are borne by the banks. Banks have never cost the Federal Government a dime. The public doesn't understand that," says Warren Buffett. "Nobody is going to lose money on a deposit in a U.S. bank. It's not going to happen."

[Marc Randolph @marcrandolph]

“OK Reed, I’ve got another one. Personalized shampoo!”

Reed shifted his eyes from the road to glance over at me. He raised his eyebrows quizzically.

“No, this is a good one,” I assured him. “We’ll have people cut off a lock of their hair. They’ll mail it to us, and our team of hair scientists will formulate a custom blend. They’ll automatically get sent a fresh bottle every month!”

Reed didn’t say anything, turning his attention back to the road, flipping on his blinker and moving to pass a sand truck that was slowly laboring it’s way ahead of us up Highway 17.

From the outside, I’m sure he seemed to be just another commuter on his way to work in Silicon Valley. But I knew what was really going on behind that blank face: a rapid-fire evaluation of pros and cons, a high-speed cost-benefit analysis, a near-instantaneous predictive model about possible risks and scalability.

Five seconds would go by, then ten, then fifteen. But almost invariably, after about 30 seconds he would turn and say, “That will never work,” swatting the idea away the same way he had dismissed all my others.

Personalized dog food. Custom sporting goods. Online vitamins. These were all ideas I pitched to Reed during our morning commute.

One idea I had been particularly excited about was video rental by mail.

“It’s perfect,” I explained to Reed. “People will pick out a movie from our website, we’ll FedEx it to them, and when they are done, they will send it back.”

It didn’t take long for Reed to shoot that one down too. This was 1997, and video came on VHS cassettes. They were big and heavy, and shipping them was expensive.

But one morning a few weeks later, Reed stopped the car at the end of my driveway and mentioned having heard about a new storage technology - still in test market - called a DVD. It held a movie. It was thin and light.

“I was thinking,” he explained, “Maybe we do that video rental idea after all? We can use the post office to deliver the movies. Cut out Federal Express entirely.”

We stared at each other both wondering the same thing: “Could this actually work?”

All thoughts of the office forgotten, we drove into town to buy a DVD and find out.

We couldn’t find a DVD, so we settled for buying a used music CD. We went a few doors down to the stationery shop and found an appropriately sized envelope. We put the CD inside, addressed it to Reed’s home, bought a stamp, and dropped it into a nearby mailbox.

And went to work.

The very next morning, when Reed stopped to pick me up, he didn’t need to say anything. He just held up a little pink envelope, with an unbroken CD inside, that had gotten to his house in less than 24 hours for the price of a postage stamp.

And if there was a moment when the idea for Netflix was born…that might have been it. Because that was the first time we both realized, this just might work.

(I'll be posting all week about my most significant Netflix moments. Make sure to follow along so you don't miss tomorrows post).

[Naval @naval]

Peace is just an idea of the mind.

[Bloom Energy @Bloom_Energy]

Our goal is to refurbish ventilators and get them back in service to the hospitals that need them. Today, we shared we're teaming up with Vyaire Medical, a leading manufacturer of ventilators, and @AlmoCorp, a major distribution company, to get it done: https://t.co/EmP355u7Pb

[Ada 🐰🕳 @adakhun]

May #babyyoda be with you! #themandolorian #starwars #disneyplus

[Ada 🐰🕳 @adakhun]

@garyvee A bit late but what the hec, my concept would have been a random drawing for every person who purchased @KSWISS #CloudsAndDirt from @ShoePalace for a Lunch with @garyvee. @tySchmitt5 how's sales? 😂